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Cabling job photos from around Nottingham.What my work looks like

I take photos on most jobs. Here is a good pile of them, all real houses and businesses, all taken on my phone. Every photo links to the full-size version.

01 · 16 photos

Sockets and faceplates

Single, double and quad plates, hand-labelled so you know which port goes where in five years.

Twin ethernet faceplate hand-labelled GIRLS and BOYS with grey patch leads, above an Openreach Master Socket 5C — Two ports labelled GIRLS and BOYS, sat right above the Openreach master socket.

Twin ethernet faceplate hand-labelled SHED and Bedroom on a white surface box resting on a skirting board — Two ports, two labels: SHED and Bedroom.

Single ethernet faceplate on pine cladding with a black cable clipped in a smooth curve up into the corner — Single port on pine cladding, the cable clipped in one clean curve up the corner.

Four-port ethernet faceplate labelled R1, R2 and Bed 1 with grey patch leads plugged in, on a green wall — R1, R2 and Bed 1 patched in, with the fourth port spare.

Twin ethernet faceplate on a surface box fixed to a loft roof truss, two black cables clipped below it — Twin port on a loft truss, both cables clipped together below it.

Twin ethernet faceplate with a spirit level resting on top and a white patch lead in the left port — Spirit level on top of the plate. Bubble in the middle.

Single ethernet surface box just above a white skirting board, beside a black cable entering the wall through a grommet — Single port on a surface box above the skirting, with cables clipped along the top of the board.

Grey gloss under-eaves wardrobe with its door open, showing a small grey data socket low on the back wall — Data point tucked inside the wardrobe, low on the back wall.

Single white ethernet socket on a sage green wall just above a white skirting board — One port, low on the wall under the window sill.

Single ethernet faceplate on an oak panel beside a brushed steel desk grommet with black cables running through — Port on the oak panel, with the cables fed through a steel desk grommet beside it.

Flush data socket beside a double power socket on a white wall, between an oak-effect wardrobe and a wooden door — Data point set flush beside the double socket, at the same height.

Four-port ethernet faceplate with blank label windows on a surface box just above a skirting board — Four ports, labels still blank.

Single white ethernet socket on a surface box against a dark navy wall, resting on a white skirting board — Single port against the navy wall, the box sat on top of the skirting.

Four-port ethernet faceplate with patch leads, a single port labelled Shed and a Virgin Media wall box on a dark wall — Four ports patched in, one labelled Shed, and the Virgin Media wall box alongside.

White data faceplate on a grey breeze-block wall with a black cable clipped down to it — Clipped down the block wall to the faceplate.

Black Virgin set-top box with HDMI and ethernet leads on a wooden bedside cabinet, below wall faceplates and a Netgear powerline adapter — TV box on the cabinet, faceplates and a powerline adapter on the wall behind.

02 · 20 photos

External runs on brick

Clipped along the mortar line, grommet where it enters, a drip loop so rain runs off, not in.

Black cables clipped in smooth sweeping curves across a grey painted brick wall, one feeding in through a rubber grommet — Cables bent to a smooth radius and clipped to the brick, one feeding in through a grommet.

Galvanised anchor plate on a red brick corner holding a catenary wire, with a black cable clipped along the mortar line — Catenary wire clamped to an anchor plate, cable clipped along the mortar line.

Black cables clipped in lines on orange brick beside a black downpipe, one ending at a round grommet — Vertical drops and a neat bend beside the downpipe.

Black cable clipped along a mortar joint at the base of a brick wall, entering through a round black grommet above gravel — Low along the mortar line and into the wall through a grommet.

Thin black cable running down buff brick beside a white window, forming a drip loop into a grommet near the ground — Down the wall beside the window with a drip loop at the entry point.

Black cable dropping from a grommet down a red brick facade between two windows, then running along a blue brick course — One drop between the windows, then along the blue brick course.

Black cable coming down a red brick corner and turning to follow the top of a blue brick course round the corner — Turned at the blue brick course and followed it round the corner.

Black cables clipped with right-angle bends on brown brick, one dropping into a drip loop before a wall grommet, beside a metal gate — Right-angle bends and a drip loop into the grommet.

Several black cables running in parallel with rounded bends across red brick, feeding down past a white dome CCTV camera — Several runs kept parallel with matching bends, next to a dome camera.

Brick gable end under blue sky with black cables running vertically from near the roof down towards a conservatory — Vertical runs down the gable end.

Black cable clipped along an old red brick garden wall just under grey coping stones, above rattan garden furniture — Tucked under the coping stones along the garden wall.

Dark cable clipped along a brick pier and across a new timber rail spanning over a garden fence — Across the gap on a timber rail fixed above the fence.

Black cable clipped in a long straight run along a painted red brick wall above a concrete path — One long clipped run along the painted brickwork.

Tall brick wall with grey-painted lower courses, cables curving into a grommet and a thin cable rising to a window — Up the wall to a grommet, with one thin cable carrying on to the window.

Black cable running down a brick corner from the soffit into a drip loop and grommet beside a white door frame — Down from the soffit with a drip loop into the grommet by the door.

Two black cables clipped together down red brick, jogging round lead flashing, with a ladder and stand-off against the wall — Two cables clipped as a pair, stepped round the flashing.

Black cable clipped along the plinth of a buff brick wall at ground level, running past timber decking — Clipped low along the plinth past the decking.

Two black cables entering buff brick through round grommets, curving down to join a run along a black brick course — Two entries, two grommets, one run along the course.

Black cable clipped along the dark plinth of a red brick wall above a strip of pale gravel, with a vertical drop further along — Clipped along the plinth above the gravel strip.

Black external cable clipped along the brick courses of a bay window and into a wall grommet beside a green front door — Cable follows the brick lines round the bay and drops into a grommet.

03 · 9 photos

Garden offices, sheds and bars

Overhead on a catenary wire, buried in conduit, or along the fence. Whatever the garden wants.

Single ethernet faceplate, an Openreach master socket and a power socket in a row on a log cabin wall — Ethernet, phone line and power in one row on the timber wall.

Waney-edge timber garden office with a white cable on a catenary wire running across the garden to its front wall — Cable strung on a catenary wire across the garden to the office wall.

End view of a waney-edge garden office with a black cable on a catenary wire crossing the sky to its corner — The overhead run seen from the end, landing at the corner of the office.

Pale grey summerhouse office and matching shed at the end of a flowering cottage garden with a bench and lawn — Summerhouse office at the bottom of the garden.

Single white data outlet low on a pine-clad wall, with its black cable clipped up the corner — One outlet, one run of clips up the corner.

TV on a timber shelf in a slatted garden bar, with a white data outlet and an outdoor power socket beside it — Data point next to the TV shelf, with an outdoor socket underneath.

Black-stained timber garden room with festoon lights, an open glazed door and a covered patio alongside — Black timber garden room with festoon lights along the front.

White data outlet beside an Openreach socket and double power socket on a pine-clad wall, with a patch lead to the floor — Data point next to the Openreach socket and the power.

Black CAT6 cable looping into a timber shed wall through a rubber grommet just under the eaves — CAT6 looped in under the eaves through a grommet, clipped to the corner post.

04 · 6 photos

Switches, patch panels and cabinets

Numbered panels and dressed cables for shops, units and busy houses.

Orange patch leads looping from a patch panel down to a Technomate PoE switch inside a black wall cabinet — Orange patch leads from the panel down to the PoE switch.

Rear of a patch panel with eight grey cables cable-tied and punched down into colour-coded terminal blocks — Eight cables tied off and punched down on the back of the panel.

Five white network cables cable-tied to a patch panel bar and punched down into colour-coded terminals — Five runs tied to the bar and punched down in colour order.

Technomate network switch on floorboards, patched to a white data outlet above the skirting board — Switch patched into the wall outlet, spare leads still in the bag.

Two four-port data plates with hand-written port labels, purple cables held in neat loops by black velcro straps — Every port labelled, cables looped and strapped with velcro.

Grey cable clipped along exposed timber rafters in an unfinished extension with block walls and roof windows — Cable clipped along the rafters, no ceiling on yet.

05 · 8 photos

TV, Sky and aerial

Flush mounts, combined plates, coax sorted.

Faceplate with an ethernet port and an F-type coax connector, beside an Openreach master socket on grey textured wallpaper — Ethernet and F-type on one plate, next to the Openreach master socket.

Covered timber garden bar with rope armchairs, a counter and a TV on the back wall showing football — The garden bar with the match on.

Wall-mounted TV sitting flat against green botanical wallpaper above a long grey fluted sideboard, with tools on the floor — TV up on the botanical wall, tools still on the floor.

Wall-mounted TV displaying a sunflower painting on leaf-patterned wallpaper above a black-topped sideboard with a nixie clock — Sunflowers on the screen, the box on the sideboard below.

TV showing a sunflower painting hangs close to botanical wallpaper, seen from an angle above the skirting board — From the side it sits almost flat to the wall.

Hisense TV on its stand feet on an oak corner TV unit beside a potted palm and a woven basket — Hisense on the oak corner unit, beside the palm.

Quad faceplate with two network ports hand-labelled SKY and TV, a blank module and an F-type coax connector, leads plugged in — Two ports labelled SKY and TV, a blank, and an F connector.

New LG TV mounted on the wall during set-up, its screen showing a not connected to the internet message, code NW-1-19 — New LG up on the wall and set up, waiting for its ethernet to go in. Not connected yet, code NW-1-19.

06 · 12 photos

How jobs start

The befores. Tangles, dead boxes, cables where they should not be.

TV lying face down on a white dust sheet with wall-mount bracket plates fixed to its back and the fitting instructions on top — Brackets on the back, face down on a dust sheet.

Coax cable from a wall grommet runs through a white inline box to a metal splitter feeding two white leads on a blue dust sheet — Coax out of the wall, through a splitter, dust sheet down.

Loose black cable running across patio slabs and along a gravel strip beside a red brick wall, past a potted red geranium — Cable lying loose across the patio and along the gravel by the wall.

Open back box above an Openreach master socket with two black cables hanging out, next to a double plug socket with two plugs — Openreach master socket with an open box above it and two black cables hanging loose.

Mass of white, black and pink cables hanging from open trunking beside a faceplate hand-labelled TV Kitchen and Sky — Faceplate labelled TV Kitchen and Sky, with a mass of cables hanging out of the trunking beside it.

RJ45 couplers held together with masking tape and hand-written labels among loose cables inside a wooden cabinet — Couplers joined with tape and marker-pen labels, cables looped around the cabinet floor.

Hand holding a bundle of old white ethernet leads with clear RJ45 plugs, in front of more cables hanging against a wall — A handful of old patch leads, with more still hanging on the wall behind.

Black cable looped loosely across a conservatory roof below a brick wall, with a white gutter and roof tiles to the left — Cable looped loose over the conservatory roof and down past the gutter.

Black router balanced on a white cabinet with tangled black leads, near a plug socket, a phone socket and a fuse box set in the wall — Router on the cabinet, black leads in a knot and a white lead trailing across the floor from the wall socket.

Black cable clipped down a white wall from exposed ceiling joists to a small white faceplate, with grey cables hanging nearby — Ceiling down, black cable clipped down to the faceplate.

Bundle of black and grey cables cable-tied together, running across a concrete floor into a timber stud wall — Cables tagged, tied and fed into the stud wall.

Rectangular hole cut in a plasterboard wall above the skirting board, showing timber noggins in the void behind — Hole cut in the plasterboard, timber noggins behind.

07 · 13 photos

On site

Me, the ladders, the tester, the drum of outside cable.

Craig in a navy Cable Craig polo holding a claw hammer outside a Premier shop in Lowdham, with a ladder against a cottage roof behind — Hammer in hand in Lowdham, ladder up on the roof behind.

Craig in a black Cable Craig polo standing in front of a house wrapped in scaffolding with a ladder up to the roof — Standing in front of the scaffold in the Cable Craig polo.

Craig in a black Cable Craig polo, taking a selfie from the driver seat — Me in the driver seat, in the Cable Craig polo.

Bosch cordless SDS drill resting against a black downpipe at the base of a red brick wall, with a thin white cable beside it — The Bosch SDS parked against the downpipe, bit pointed into the brickwork.

Aluminium extension ladder against a brick gable wall with a claw hammer and silicone gun hung on its rungs and a black cable up the wall — Ladder up the gable, hammer and silicone gun hung on the rungs, cable running up to the top.

Drum of black cable still in its wrap on a yellow reel stand, set on paving slabs beside a gravel border and fence — Drum still in its wrap, sat on the reel stand.

Hand holding a blue RJ45 cable tester connected by a grey patch lead to a white data faceplate under a windowsill — Tester on a patch lead into the faceplate under the window.

Hand holding a torpedo spirit level on top of a white data faceplate with a stripped black cable hanging below — Level on the faceplate, pairs still to be terminated.

Empty white back box on a sage green wall, with brick dust caught on a black sheet taped along the skirting board — Sheet taped to the skirting so the brick dust lands on it.

Openreach Master Socket 5C above a white skirting board with a used Bosch dust sheet taped to the floor below — Dust sheet taped down under the Openreach master socket.

Drum of black cable on a yellow reel stand on a lawn, the cable running past potted geraniums towards a brick wall — Cable run off the drum across the lawn to the wall.

Black cables laid along a floor with boards lifted over the joists, next to Bosch batteries and a cordless drill — Boards up and cables laid out along the floor.

Drum of black cable on a yellow reel stand on a slate patio beside a barrel table, bar stools and a red brick wall — Drum set up on the patio against the brick wall.

Same job, two photos

Before and after

Only pairs I can stand behind as the same wall or the same cabinet. Everything else on this page is shown on its own.

Rough drilled hole in a pale blue wall beside a white Virgin Media coax wall box above the skirting board — Data socket fitted beside the Virgin Media wall box, coax lead plugged in.

Single ethernet socket mounted beside a Virgin Media wall outlet with a white coax lead, on a pale blue wall — Data socket fitted beside the Virgin Media wall box, coax lead plugged in.

Black cable coming out of a grey timber cabin base onto slate chippings, with a claw hammer, silicone sealant and green conduit beside it — Clipped along the base board and into the cabin through a grommet.

Black network cable clipped along grey cabin boards and entering the wall through a rubber grommet — Clipped along the base board and into the cabin through a grommet.

Bundle of loose white CAT6 cables hangs from a black wall-mounted network cabinet down a blockwork wall past a stepladder — Numbered 24-port patch panel, the cables bundled behind it.

Numbered 24-port patch panel in a black wall cabinet with bundled grey cables looping behind it — Numbered 24-port patch panel, the cables bundled behind it.

Coils of purple network cable hang beside a consumer unit and an Openreach box above a chest of drawers with cable tools — Two four-port plates, every port labelled by hand, fed from the trunking.

Two four-port data plates with hand-written labels beside a consumer unit, fed by purple cable from white trunking — Two four-port plates, every port labelled by hand, fed from the trunking.

Black cables drape loosely across a grey blockwork garage wall below copper pipes and a grey junction box — Every run clipped in line along the blockwork, under the pipes.

Black cables clipped in level runs across a grey blockwork garage wall beneath copper pipes and a grey junction box — Every run clipped in line along the blockwork, under the pipes.

Black cable lies loose across patio slabs and gravel around a potted lavender below two white-framed windows — Clipped along the brick course at the foot of the wall, behind the lavender.

Black cable clipped along the dark brick course at the base of a house wall behind a potted lavender on a patio — Clipped along the brick course at the foot of the wall, behind the lavender.

Loose black cable lies in loops on the paving of a side passage between a brick wall and a wheelie bin — Clipped down the brickwork and along the plinth of the side passage.

Black cable clipped down a red brick wall and along the dark base course of a side passage beside a blue fence — Clipped down the brickwork and along the plinth of the side passage.

Old yellowed Virgin Media coax box and phone socket in a room corner, with a loose coax lead on the carpet — New data socket in a surface box above the Virgin Media phone socket.

White single network socket in a surface box mounted above a Virgin Media phone socket beside an old coax box — New data socket in a surface box above the Virgin Media phone socket.

Empty white back box above a black cable in a grommet on a yellow wall, next to an NTL box, with brick dust on the skirting — Faceplate on beside the old NTL box, the black cable through the grommet below it.

White single ethernet faceplate on a yellow wall beside an old NTL box, with a black cable running down from a grommet below it — Faceplate on beside the old NTL box, the black cable through the grommet below it.

Hand holding a white ethernet patch lead with an RJ45 plug below a SolarEdge solar inverter on a bare brick wall — Data socket on the brick beside the SolarEdge inverter, patch lead coiled.

White ethernet wall socket with a coiled patch lead on a brick wall beside a SolarEdge inverter and isolator switches — Data socket on the brick beside the SolarEdge inverter, patch lead coiled.

Highly recommended...clean tidy job..defo would have se again if needed

Emma L. · 7 May 2021 · Facebook

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